Ed Pulaski

Great Fire of 1910 On August 20, 1910, Pulaski was credited with saving all but five of his 45-man crew during the Great Fire of 1910, also known as the "Big Blowup." The mine entrance, now known as the Pulaski Tunnel, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Pulaski remained with the Forest Service until 1929, though the great fire's smoke and flames had damaged his lungs and eyes; during that time he petitioned the government for money to care for the graves of the dozens of firefighters killed by the 1910 fire, and for compensation for his wounds. A combination hand tool with a mattock for digging or grubbing on one side and an axe for chopping on the other, it is often called a "Pulaski tool".

Legacy Mount Pulaski, a peak southwest of Wallace, is named for him.

The US Forest Service's Pulaski Tunnel Trail near Wallace, Idaho, provides access to the Nicholson Mine site where Pulaski and his team took shelter.

An initialed ("E.P.") tool, which purportedly belonged to Pulaski himself, is at the Wallace District Mining Museum in Wallace, Idaho in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.

American Singer-Songwriter Steve Earle wrote and recorded a song that largely recounts the story of Ed Pulaski's heroic actions and invention, "The Firebreak Line". It appears on his 2017 album So You Wannabe An Outlaw.

Pulaski's actions during the Great Fire of 1910 were covered in the Drunk History episode "Good Samaritans."

Planes: Fire and Rescue, the firetruck character voiced by Patrick Warburton is named "Pulaski" after the tool, or its inventor.